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#624
girlonbass said:
Geez, how do you find this stuff? :eek:

Do you have any links to the builder?

Terri
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Couldn't find any links.

Here's some info from the owner, TB'r Wayne Pflughaupt
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My 4-sting was custom hand-made by Allen Breaux, who lives somewhere north of Houston. I bought it used from a guy I was installing sound systems with back in the mid 90s, paid a mere $800 for it - a steal! I've played high-end basses costing over $5000 in the stores that I haven't liked as much as this one. The tone quality is great, very warm, lots of texture. Pickups are Bartolini soap bars and I use Ken Smith Rockmaster mediums on it. The neck is absolutely perfectly straight – never had a bass with a neck like that before, not even the Steinberger I had back in the 80s with a composite neck. The perfect neck allowed me to get the action ridiculously low. This is the first bass I've ever had where I could set the action even lower than I wanted! And I like it REALLY low.

Any bass player worth his pick-ups will see that the body is patterned after Tobias, and the headstock copies the Warwick Thumb bass. The body is a perfect Tobias copy, actually - I picked up a Tobias hard case on eBay, and it was a perfect fit.

The body is flame maple with wenge sandwiched in between (i.e., the dark strip you can barely see at the lower left-hand of the body). The center "stripe" is bubinga flanked with purpleheart stringers. The neck I'm less clear about - I think the light wood is some kind of maple, the dark some kind of rosewood. The fingerboard is ebony.

The bridge is a Wilkenson, which I really like - easy to set intonation and string height. Grover tuners, I think. It’s a bolt-on neck, but in spite of that this thing will sustain for days. I've never had a bass that sustained like this one. With a little compression from the dbx 160X I can float a whole note for two full measures of a slow song! I haven't seen even a neck-through that could sustain like this bass does. It probably has something to do with the electronics. Don't know what they are, I guess whatever came with the Barts, but it almost seems like they have some built-in compression of their own (i.e. above what the dbx adds). For instance (and this is my one and only complaint with the bass), playing with a pick sounds really "flat." You just don't get the sharp attack that you're used to hearing with most other basses I've had.
 
#630
Here's a brand you didn't list.

MAESTRO

This bass is awesome. When I got it the wiring was messed up so I added a 4 band Audere preamp. I added a string tree and leveled the frets. I also added a battery box. It cops a nice Stingray tone. I also added straploks.

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#639
Bootlegguitars.com is on your list. Jon Hill is the luthier.

Bootleg appears to be his company that produces "stock" guitars/basses. BTW, there are 3 models now(P/J added). There are only two displayed on your database link. He is also known for his custom guits/basses.

I suggest a separate entry for Jon Hill with a cross link to Bootleg and vice versa.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/show-us-your-custom-bass-112207/#post1281153
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/jon-hill-custom-elite-5-flamed-maple-top-598656/
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http://www.myspace.com/150063682]Hill Custom USA (Hill Custom Guitars) on Myspace (listed as Hill Custom Guitars)

He also has a youtube channel: YouTube - ‪HillsterBass's Channel‬‏
He states on his intro youtube video that he still produces custom instruments.
 
#640
Hi all,

I've sorted this out a bit. Take a look and let me know if you think I need to do more. Link Removed

I'm going to try to sort out the rest of everyone's suggestions in the next few days.

thanks,
Terri


Stumbo said:
Bootlegguitars.com is on your list. Jon Hill is the luthier.

Bootleg appears to be his company that produces "stock" guitars/basses. BTW, there are 3 models now(P/J added). There are only two displayed on your database link. He is also known for his custom guits/basses.

I suggest a separate entry for Jon Hill with a cross link to Bootleg and vice versa.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/show-us-your-custom-bass-112207/#post1281153
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f126/jon-hill-custom-elite-5-flamed-maple-top-598656/
Link Removed (forwards to Bootleg)
http://www.myspace.com/150063682]Hill Custom USA (Hill Custom Guitars) on Myspace (listed as Hill Custom Guitars)

He also has a youtube channel: YouTube - ‪HillsterBass's Channel‬‏
He states on his intro youtube video that he still produces custom instruments.
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